Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.

Take what you can from your dreams, Make them as real as anything...

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

I hate to admit it, but we're badass.